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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT, 
0^ IN AND FOR VOLUSIA COUNTY, 



STATE OF FLORIDA 



^ 

S NOTICE OF APPLICATION, AND 

PROPOSED CHARTER OF 

FLORIDA STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 

For record in office of the Clerk of Circuit, 11 o'clock A. M., 
on the twenty-ninth day of November, A. D. 1921, and recorded in 
Book No. 3, Corp., page 315. 

Record verified. 

Witness my hand and seal of said Court this twenty-ninth 
day of November, A. D. 1921. 

SAMUEL D. JORDAN, Clerk. 
O. CLIFFORD BOTTS, Deputy Clerk. 
(Signed) 



Filed in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court, Volusia 
County, Florida, October 28, 1921. 

SAMUEL D. JORDAN, Clerk. 
O. CLIFFORD BOTTS, Deputy Clerk. 
(Signed) 



ISAAC A. STEWART TOM B. STEWART 

STEWART & STEWART, 

Attorneys-at-Law 

Deland, Fla. 

For Petitioners. 



FORMAL PUBLICATION OF NOTICE 



Notice is hereby given by the undersigned that they did on 
the 28th day of October, A. D. 1921, file in the office of the Clerk 
of the Circuit Court of Vokisia County, State of Florida, a pro- 
posed charter for a corporation not for profit, to be incorporated 
under the name of Florida State Historical Society: that the char- 
acter and object of said corporation shall be to further interest in 
the history of the State of Florida ; to form a library devoted to 
Florida history ; to acquire and preserve historical documents and 
memorabilia and collections of any sort referring to Florida ; to 
foster research in early records ; to publish results of such re- 
search ; to render accessible scarce historical material by fac-simile 
or reprint ; to discover, produce and preserve whatever relates to 
the topography, cartography and antiquities of Florida; and to 
engage in any other proper activity ; to be able and capable as a 
body corporate to have, hold and enjoy all chattels, lands and 
tenements not to exceed in value Fifteen Thousand Dollars ($15.- 
000.00) (exclusive of library and antiquities), and to acquire the 
same by gift, donation or purchase, and the power at all times to 
dispose of the same, in a manner authorized by law and subject 
only to the approval of the Circuit Judge of Volusia County, 
Florida, where the law so requires ; and the undersigned intend to 
apply to the Honorable James W. Perkins, Judge of the Circuit 
Court of the Seventh Judicial Circuit, in and for Volusia County, 
Florida, for a charter incorporating them, their associates and 
successors as a body politic, under the corporate name aforesaid, 
in accordance with the said proposed charter now on file in the 
office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Volusia County. State 



of Florida. Said application will be made to said Judge on the 
29th day of November, A. D. 1921. 

In Witness Whereof, we have hereunto set our hands and 
seals : 

Lincoln Hulley 

C. B. Ros.v 

S. A. Wood 

G. Prentice Carson 

C. B. Reynolds 

G. P. WiNSHIP 

Jeannette Thurber Connor 

Duncan U. Fletcher 

Peter O. Knight 

Kirk Munroe 

John B. Stetson, Jr. 

May M. Jennings 

W. A. MacWilliams 

John J. Paul 

Cary a. Hardee 

A. A. Murphree 

Isaac A. Stewart 



PROOF OF PUBLICATION. 
VOLUSIA COUNTY. 



STATE OF FLORIDA, ' "^•^■ 

Personally Appeared Before Me, A. B. CROOK, to me 
well known, who, being duly sworn, says he is the foreman of the 
Deland Daily News, a newspaper published in Deland, Volusia 
County, Florida, and that the attached advertisement of Notice of 
Application for Charter, Lincoln Hulley, et al., was published in 
the regular issue of said paper on October 29, and November 5, 
12, 19, 26, 1921, the same being 30 days and four consecutive 
issues of said paper, and that the legal fee for said publication is 
$ 

A. B. Crook, 
Foreman, The Deland Daily Nezvs. 



Subscribed and sworn to before me this 
28th day of November, 1921. 

John F. Culp, 
Notary Public, State of Florida at Large. 

My commission expires November 8, 1925. 



NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR CHARTER 

Notice is hereby gi\en by the undersigned that they did, on 
the twenty-eighth day of October. A. D. 1921, file in the office of 
the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Volusia County, State of Florida, 
a i)roposed charter for a corporation not for profit, to be incor- 
porated under the name of Florida State Historical Societv: 
that the character and object of said corporation shall be to further 
interest in the history of the State of Florida; to form a library 
devoted to Florida history ; to acquire and preserve historical docu- 
ments and memorabilia and collections of any sort referring to 
Florida ; to foster research in early records ; to publish results of 
such research ; to render accessible scaice historical material by 
fac-simile or reprint ; to discover, produce and preserve whatever 
relates to the topography, cartography and antiquities of Florida, 
and to engage in any other proper activity ; to be able and capable 
as a body corporate to have, hold and enjoy all chattels, lands and 
tenements not to exceed in value Fifteen Thousand ($15,000.00) 
Dollars (exclusive of library aad antiquities), and to acquire the 
same by gift, donation or purchase, and the power at all times to 
dispose of the same, in a manner authorized by law, and subject 
only to the approval of the Circuit Judge of Volusia County, 
Florida, where the law so requires; and the undersigned intend to 
apply to the Honorable James W. Perkins, Judge of the Circuit 
Court of the Seventh Judicial Circuit, in and for Volusia County, 
IHorida, for a charter incorporating them, their associates and 



successors as a body politic, under the corporate name aforesaid, 
in accordance with the said proposed charter now on file in the 
office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Volusia County, State 
of Florida. Said application will be made to said Judge on the 
twenty-ninth day of November, A. D. 1921. 

In Witness Whereof, we have hereunto set our hands and 

seals : 

Lincoln Hulley 

C. B. Rosa 

S. A. Wood 

G. Prentice Carson 

C. B. Reynolds 

G. P. WiNSHIP 

Jeannette Thurber Connok 

Duncan U. Fletcher 

Peter O. Knight 

Kirk Munroe 

John B. Stetson, Jr. 

May M. Jennings 

W. A. MacWilliams 

John J. Paul 

Cary a. Hardee 

A. A. Murphree 

Isaac A. Stewart 



PROPOSED CHARTER OF FLORIDA STATE 
HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 

Preamble. 

WHEREAS, to collect and preserve the evidence of its own 
history from the earliest date is both the duty and interest of 
every political society, whether its progress has been prosperous 
or disastrous ; and 

WHEREAS, the history of Florida, which was discovered by 
the Spaniards and first settled by them ; which the French coveted 
and tried to capture from Spain ; which the English tried to take 
from Spain by force of arms, but finally acquired by treaty, only 
to return it once more to Spain after a lapse of twenty years; 
which the new United States desired for strategic reasons and ac- 
quired by purchase and treaty, making of it first a territory and 
elevating it finally to full statehood ; which was the haunt of buc- 
caneers and privateers, and the scene of Indian massacres and 
wars, and of colonizing projects of many varieties; which per- 
formed its share in the Civil War, the Spanish War and the World 
War, presents as inspiring a field for historical research as the 
history of any other State in the Union ; a field which at the present 
time is almost untouched ; 

THEREFORE, impressed with these considerations and 
desirous of inspiring in the citizens of Florida a wholesome 
curiosity for the deeds of their predecessors who traveled, fought 
and died on our soil, sustained always by an ideal ; and believing 
that good will come from the study of those old ideals, we, whose 
names are subjoined, do hereby unite ourselves in a society, in 
order to be incorporated and become a corporation not for profit, 
under the laws of the State of Florida, and for the purpose of 
elucidating the natural, civil, literary and ecclesiastical history of 
Florida, and hereby propose and subscribe the following charter : 

Section I. The name of this Society shall be Florida State 
Historical Society^ and it shall be located at Deland, Volusia 
County, Florida. 

Section II. The general objects of the Society shall be to 
further interest in the history of the State; to form a library de- 
voted to Florida history ; to acquire and preserve historical docu- 



merits and memorabilia and collections of any sort referring to 
Florida ; to foster research in early records ; to publish results 
of such research ; to render accessible scarce historical material by 
fac-simile or reprint ; to discover, produce and preserve whatever 
relates to the topography, cartography and antiquities of Florida 
and to engage in any other proper activity ; to be able and capable 
as a body corporate to have, hold and enjoy all chattels, lands and 
tenements not to exceed in value Fifteen Thousand ($15,000.00) 
Dollars (exclusive of library and antiquities), and to acquire the 
same by gift, donation or purchase, and the power at all times to 
dispose of the same, in a manner authorized by law, and subject 
only to the approval of the Circuit Judge of Volusia County, 
Florida, where the law so requires. 

The John B, Stetson University at Deland, Florida, shall 
be the custodian of the collections, which it shall care for and make 
accessible to members under suitable conditions, as shall be pro- 
vided for in the by-laws. 

Sectiox III. The term for which this corporation is to exist 
shall begin with the approval by the Circuit Court Judge of this 
charter, and shall continue perpetually. 

Section IV. The names and residences of the subscribers 
to this charter are as follows : 



J. J. Paul 


of 


Watertown, Florida 


Duncan U. Fletcher 


of 


Jacksonville, Florida 


S. A. Wood 


.of 


Deland, Florida 


G. Prentice Carson 


of 


Deland, Florida 


Lincoln Hulley 


of 


Deland, Florida 


Jeannette Thurber Connor 


of 


New York City 


John B. Stetson, Jr. 


of 


Philadelphia, Pa. 


May M. Jennings 


of 


Jacksonville, Florida 


C. B. Rosa 


of 


Deland, Florida 


C. B. Reynolds 


of 


New York City 


W. A. AlacWilliams 


of 


St. Augustine, Florida 


Cary A. Hardee 


of 


Live Oak, Florida 


Peter O. Knight 


of 


Tampa, Florida 


Kirk Munroe 


of 


Cocoanut Grove, Florida 


I. A. Stewart 


of 


Deland, Florida 


Geo. P. Winship 


of 


Cambridge, Mass. 


A. A. Murphree 


of 


Gainesville, Florida 



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Section V. This Society shall be composed of the following 
classes of membership: honorary members, life members, contrib- 
uting members, sustaining members and annual members. Honor- 
ary membership is limited to twenty members. Life members 
shall consist of those who make a contribution of One Hundred 
($100.00) Dollars, and they shall become exempt from further 
dues. The contributing members shall consist of persons who 
shall contribute Fifty ($50.00) Dollars annually to the objects of 
the Society. The sustaining members shall consist of those mem- 
bers who agree to purchase from the Society all its publications as 
fast as issued, at approximately cost, not exceeding Fifty ($50.00) 
Dollars in any calendar year. This class shall be limited to two 
hundred and fifty. Annual members shall consist of those who 
subscribe Five ($5.00) Dollars annually to the purposes of the 
Society. Ten or more members shall constitute a quorum at any 
meeting of the Society. The council shall have the power to elect 
honorary, life, contributing and sustaining members. All mem- 
bers shall have the right to vote. 

Section VI. The officers by whom the affairs of this Society 
are to be managed shall be a president, vice-president, secretary 
and treasurer, and a council of seventeen members ; the president, 
vice-president, secretary and treasurer of the Society shall be ex- 
ofificio members of the said council. The president, vice-president, 
secretary and treasurer shall be elected annually, and the Society 
shall, at its first regular meeting, elect four members of the coun- 
cil for three years, four for two years, and four for one year, 
respectively, to hold office until their respective successors are 
elected ; and at each regular annual meeting thereafter, four mem- 
bers of the council shall be elected for three years, to succeed the 
retiring members of the council. The president of John B. Stet- 
son University shall be, and is hereby declared to be, ex-officio a 
member of this Society, and a member of the council of seventeen 
herein provided for. 

Seven members of the council shall constitute a quorum. It 
shall be the duty of the council to report donations made to the 
Society and to take suitable care of the books ; to superintend the 
correspondence of the Society ; to publish the business of the 

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Society ; and to attend to such duties in the business of the Society 
as may from time to time be committed to them by the Society. 
They shall have the power to make rules for their own govern- 
ment in the meetings. At the annual meeting of the Society they 
shall make a report of the acquisitions and transactions of the 
preceding year. The council may be specially convened at any 
time by the president or vice-president. 

Section VII. The names of the officers who are to manage 
all the afifairs of the Society until the first election under this char- 
ter are as follows : 

G. P. Carson President 

Jeannette Thurber Connor Vice-President 

C. B. Rosa Secretary 

S. A. Wood Treasurer, and 

J. J. Paul 

Duncan U. Fletcher 

Lincoln Hulley 

John B. Stetson, Jr. 

May M. Jennings 

C. B. Reynolds 

W. A. MacWilliams 

Cary a. Hardee 

Peter O. Knight 

Kirk Munroe 

I. A. Stewart 

Geo. p. Winship 

A. A. Murphree 
members of the council. 

Section VIII. The Society shall meet annually, to wit: on 
the first Monday of February, but the president, or in his absence, 
the vice-president, may call a special meeting on giving due notice 
thereof. The meetings shall be held in Deland, Florida, or at 
such other place in Florida as may be determined annually by 
the council. The election of officers of the council shall take place 
at this meeting and shall be decided by a majority of ballots. An 
annual discourse shall be delivered by some one designated by the 
council, who shall be appointed for that purpose by said council, 

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and a dissertation on the general objects of the Society may be 
delivered at any of its meetings. When the discourse is delivered, 
strangers may be admitted. The Society may from time to time 
appoint special committees for the purpose of investigating particu- 
lar subjects, v^ho shall report to the council, which latter may select 
certain parts thereof which they may deem expedient to lay before 
the Society. 

Section IX. The by-laws of the Society shall be adopted 
by the members thereof at the first regular meeting held after 
the approval of this charter, and any one or more of said by- 
laws may be altered or rescinded or new by-laws adopted, by a 
majority of the members of the Society present at such meeting, 
provided, however, that the question of making such alteration or 
recession, or adoption of such new by-laws, shall be proposed at 
a regular or special meeting of the Society held not less than two 
weeks prior to the time the same are voted on. 

Section X. The highest amount of indebtedness or liability 
to which the Society may at any time subject itself, shall be Ten 
Thousand ($10,000.00) Dollars, but shall never exceed two-thirds 
of the value of the property of the Society. 



Signed : 



Lincoln Hulley 

C. B. Rosa 

S. A. Wood 

G. Prentice Carson 

C. B. Reynolds 

G. P. WiNSHIP 

Jeannette Thurber Connor 

Duncan U. Fletcher 

Peter O. Knight 

Kirk Munroe 

John B. Stetson, Jr. 

May M. Jennings 

W. A. MacWilliams 

John J. Paul 

Cary a. Hardee 

A. A. Murphree 

Isaac A. Stewart 



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STATE OF FLORIDA, ) 

f ss. 
COUNTY OF VOLUSIA, \ 

On this day personally appeared before me, TOM B. STEW- 
ART, a notary public of the State of Florida, one ISAAC A. 
STEWART, to me personally and well known to be one of the 
persons mentioned and described in the foregoing proposed char- 
ter; who acknowledged the signing of the same for the purposes 
therein expressed, and after being duly sworn, says that it is in- 
tended in good faith to carry out the purposes and objects set 

forth therein, 

Isaac A. Stewart. 
Sworn to and subscribed and 

acknowledged before me 

this 28th day of October, 

A. D. 192L 

Tom B. Stewart, 

A^otary Public, State of Florida. 

My commission expires March 11th, 1923. 



STATE OF FLORIDA, 
VOLUSIA COUNTY. ) 

I, Samuel D. Jordan, Clerk of the Circuit Court in and for 
Volusia County, Florida, do hereby certify that the above and 
fore-notice and proposed charter of the Florida State Histori- 
cal Society was filed in my office in the Court House in Deland, 
Florida, on the 28th of October, A. D. 1921, and has remained on 
file in office until this date, to wit: November 29th. 1921, as is 
required by law. 

Witness my hand and official seal at Deland, Florida, this 
29th of November, A. D. 1921, at the hour of ten o'clock A. M. 

Samuel D. Jordan, 

Clerk of the Circuit Court of 
Volusia County, State of 
Florida. 

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DECREE 

The above and foregoing notice of application for charter, 
and proposed charter of the Florida State Historical Society, and 
proof of publications of said notice of application for charter, hav- 
ing been presented and submitted to me, and it appearing that due 
and proper notice has been given of said application for charter as 
is required by law, and no objection having been presented or 
filed objecting to the granting of said proposed charter aforesaid, 
and upon examination thereof the Court finds that the same is 
in legal and proper form, and for an object authorized by law, 
Now, therefore, it is hereby ordered, adjudged and decreed that 
said proposed charter of the Florida State Historical Society, be 
and is hereby approved, and the said applicants be and they are 
hereby organized and created into a body corporate under the 
name of Florida State Historical Society, for the object and pur- 
poses therein set forth and specified, and under the foregoing 
proposed charter. 

Done, ordered, adjudged and decreed in Chambers, at De- 
land, Florida, this 29th of November A. D. 1921. 

(Sgd.) James W. Perkins, 

Judge of the Seventh Judicial Circuit, in 
and for Volusia County^ Florida. 



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BY-LAWS. 

FLORIDA STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 

I. Membership. 

L The Society shall consist of its present members and of 
such other persons, men and women, as shall be duly elected in 
the manner specified in the charter and by-laws. 

2. Annual members shall consist of the present members of 
the Society paying annual dues, and of such other persons as shall 
be elected in the manner hereinafter specified, and pay into the 
treasury of the Society the prescribed annual dues : Provided, That 
members elected after the first day of September in any year, 
shall not be liable for the dues of that year. The dues of annual 
members shall be payable in advance on the first day of January 
in each year, but any such member by paying at one time the sum 
of One Hundred Dollars in lieu of annual dues may become a 
life member. If any person elected an annual member shall fail 
to pay the annual dues within six months after notification of 
election, such election shall become null and void. If any annual 
member shall allow the annual dues to become more than two 
years in arrears, his or her membership shall thereupon cease. In 
either of the said cases the name of such person may, upon pay- 
ment of the dues, be thereafter placed upon or restored to the roll 
by a vote of two-thirds of the members of the council present at 
any meeting thereof. 

3. Every nomination for membership shall be made in 
writing by a member of the Society in good standing, stating the 
qualification of the candidate for membership. The name of the 
candidate, with that of the nominator, shall be entered in a book 
provided for that purpose. After investigation by the Committee 
of the Council upon Election of Members, the name of the candi- 
date shall be submitted to the council for action at any meeting 
thereof. In the case of a nomination for annual membership 
if two-thirds of the members of the council present at such meet- 
ing shall agree to the admission of the candidate, he or she shall 
be taken and deemed to be duly elected a member of the Society. 
In the case of a nomination for honorary, life, contributing or 

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sustaining membership, a unanimous vote of the members of the 
council present at a stated meeting subsequent to that at which 
the name shall have been submitted shall be necessary for election. 

4. Any member of the Society may be suspended or ex- 
pelled by a vote of two-thirds of the members of the council 
present at any meeting thereof, for violation of the by-laws or any 
conduct prejudicial to the interests of the society and in violation 
of his or her duties as a member thereof : Provided, That not less 
than four weeks' notice shall have been given by the secretary of 
the council to such member of the offense or misconduct with 
which he or she is charged, and of the time and place where he or 
she may be heard in answer thereto. 

in the case of expulsion, or suspension for more than six 
months, the member shall have a right to appeal to the next stated 
meeting of the Society, which, after an opportunity to the member 
to be heard thereat, may thereupon revoke or modify the said 
expulsion or suspension by the vote of a majority of the members 
present. 

II. Meetings. 

1. Two stated meetings of the Society shall be held in each 
year, to wit : on the third Wednesday in the months of October 
and February at eight o'clock in the evening. The meeting held in 
the month of February shall be known as the Annual Meeting, 
at which the election of officers, except as hereinafter provided, 
shall be held, and the reports for the previous calendar year of 
the treasurer and council shall be presented. 

2. Special meetings may be called by the president, or, in 
his absence, by the vice-president, by giving at least fifteen days' 
notice thereof, either by circular through the post to the annual 
members or by advertisement in not less than one daily paper 
published in Jacksonville, and one other paper elsewhere in Florida. 

3. Each member shall have the right to vote at elections and 
at meetings of the Society, either in person or by proxy, as he or 
.she may deem expedient, but no proxy shall be valid unless it 
shall have been executed not less than fifteen days before the 
occasion upon which it may be used. 

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4. The Order of Business at meetings shall be as follows, 
but may be suspended or changed by vote of the members present : 

(1) Reading of the minutes of the previous stated meeting 
and of all subsequent adjourned or special meetings. 

(2) Reading of addresses, lectures, or papers, historical, 
biographical, or literary, and discussion thereof. 

(3) Reports of or communications from officers, committees, 
or others. 

(4) Unfinished business. 

(5) New business. 

III. Officers and Council. 

1. The president shall be the chief executive officer of the 
Society. It shall be his duty, unless unavoidably prevented, to 
preside at the meetings of the Society, preserve order thereat, ap- 
point all committees when appointments are not otherwise pro- 
vided for by special resolution, and perform the usual duties ap- 
pertaining to his office. It shall be his duty to exercise and main- 
tain a general supervision over the affairs of the Society, and the 
conduct of its employees, and to see that its objects, as prescribed 
by the charter and by-laws, and its instructions and those of the 
council, are duly carried out. 

2. The vice-president shall, in the absence or disability of the 
president, perform the duties and functions of that officer. 

3. The secretary shall make all preliminary arrangements for 
and attend the meetings of the Society, and shall keep accurate 
minutes of the proceedings thereof, which he shall have neatly 
ti-anscribed into a book of record. The said book shall be kept 
in the hall of the Society and shall be at all times accessible to the 
council. He shall be the sole custodian of the seal of the Society, 
which shall be securely kept in the said hall, and he shall attach 
the same to such papers as the Society or the council may direct. 
The seal now in use shall continue to be the seal of the Society. 
He shall have charge of the correspondence of the Society, other 
than that appertaining to the other officers and to committees. 
When called upon at a meeting he shall read thereat such communi- 
cations as he may have received or sent. His correspondence and 
official papers shall be accessible to the council. 

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4. The treasurer shall have charge of the funds of the So- 
ciety, except those held by trustees for special purposes. He shall 
pay all such claims as shall be ordered or approved by the council 
and keep proper books of account, which shall be subject, at all 
times, to the inspection and direction of the council. All moneys 
payable to the Society shall be received only by persons specially 
appointed by the treasurer for the purpose. He shall, after the 
close of each calendar year, make an annual report to the council 
of the condition of the treasury, which report shall be laid before 
the Society at the annual meeting. 

5. In the council shall be vested the general control and 
administration of the affairs, property, and business of the Society. 
One stated meeting of the council shall be held in each month, ex- 
cept in the months of July and August, and special meetings when- 
ever called by its president or secretary, or any three of its mem- 
bers. 

6. The annual election for officers shall take place on the 
third Wednesday in the month of February in each year between 
the hours of seven and nine P. M. and shall be by ballot. All 
nominations for officers shall be made at the stated meeting preced- 
ing that at which the election is to be held, excepting that in case 
of a vacancy in any office other than that of councillor or nomina- 
tion for the purpose of filling such vacancy may be made and the 
election held at any meeting of the Society, provided that in the 
notices of such meeting information of any such proposed action 
shall have been given. Five tellers, of whom two shall be a 
quorum, to conduct the annual election for officers, shall be ap- 
pointed by the president of the Society at any time before the 
date of the annual meeting. If no election shall take place on the 
day appointed for the annual election the former officers shall 
continue in office until their successors shall be elected, which elec- 
tion may take place at any subsequent meeting of the Society called 
upon notice that such election is to be held. 

IV. Property. 

1. All the property, real and personal, belonging to the So- 
ciety not held by special trustees, or trustees for special purposes, 
shall be under the charge, control and management of the council. 

2. All respectable and well-behaved persons, whether mem- 
bers of the Society or not, shall be permitted to examine and use 

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the books, manuscripts, pamphlets, and collections belonging to 
the Society, under such necessary regulations in respect to safety 
and convenience as the council shall from time to time establish, 
and shall be allowed free admission on the occasion of the de- 
livery of discourses and addresses, but neither members of the 
Society nor other persons shall be allov^^ed to take any of the said 
books, manuscripts, pamphlets or collections from the custody of 
the Society, excepting by special authority of the council. 

3. All donations and bequests of money to the Society, unless 
otherwise directed by the donors or testator, and all moneys re- 
ceived in lieu of annual dues as hereinbefore provided, shall be 
invested under the direction of the council, the income only to be 
applied to the support of the Society and the carrying out of the 
purposes for which it has been established. Such investments 
shall be called the Endowment Fund and shall not be converted 
into money except for reinvestment. 

4. The investments of each of the several funds subject to 
the control of the Society shall be held in the name of the Society, 
but designated as belonging to the particular fund. All moneys 
held in trust as aforesaid shall be invested and reinvested under 
the direction of the council, and the income only applied to the 
carrying out of the purposes for which the funds respectively have 
been established. Such investments shall not be converted into 
money except for reinvestment, or for carrying into efifect the 
purposes for which any particular fund may have been constituted. 
The trustees of such funds may in their discretion authorize and 
empower the treasurer of the Society to collect and account for 
the income of such investments. 

5. The trustees of all funds whose appointments are not 
specifically provided for in the creation thereof shall be three in 
number for each fund, and shall be elected by the council from 
among the members of the Society to serve for six years. Elec- 
tions of trustees shall take place at the stated meeting of the coun- 
cil held in the month of February in each even-numbered year. 
In the cases of funds now existing one trustee for each fund 
shall be elected at such time, and the trustees now in office shall 

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continue until the expiration of the terms for which they have 
been severally elected. In the cases of funds to be created in the 
future three trustees for each fund shall be elected at the time, 
or as soon as possible thereafter, to serve until the next stated meet- 
ing of the council held in the month of F'ebruary in an even-num- 
bered year, when three trustees for each fund shall be elected, 
one to serve two years, one to serve four years, and one to serve 
six years, and thereafter one trustee for each fund shall be elected 
at each of such meetings to serve six years. If no election shall 
take place on the day appointed, the former trustees shall continue 
until their successors shall be elected, which may be at any sub- 
sequent stated meeting of the council or any special meeting there- 
of called for the express purpose, upon notice that such election 
is intended to be held. Vacancies in the office of trustee may be 
filled for unexpired terms at like times and in like manner. 

6. In all cases of funds created or other property settled in 
trust for the benefit of the Society, and the trustees holding the 
same have the sole power to fill vacancies in their number, when- 
ever such vacancies occur the council may nominate to the sur- 
viving or continuing trustees such members of the society as it 
may think most proper to fill such vacancies, with its recommenda- 
tion that they shall be chosen accordingly. 

V. New By-Laws. 

1. Xo alteration shall bo made in the by-laws unless the 
proposed alteration shall have been presented in writing and read 
to the Society at a regular or special meeting thereof, held not less 
than two weeks prior to the time the same are voted on in the 
notices of which second special mention shall be made of the pro- 
posed action. The proposed alteration shall be posted in the meet- 
ing place of the Society for two weeks before final action, and no 
such alteration shall be adopted except upon the vote in its favor 
of two-thirds of the annual members of the Society in good stand- 
ing present at the meeting at which the vote shall be taken upon 
its final adoption. 



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